Literature & Ideas
Landmark
Dambudzo Marechera
1952 – 1987
The House of Hunger, and the Guardian Fiction Prize
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Why they are here
His first book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979 and broke every convention of African writing at the time. He was dead at thirty-five and has never stopped being read.
Dambudzo Marechera won critical acclaim for The House of Hunger, a collection of stories giving a fierce account of life in Rhodesia under white rule.
Published in 1978, it won the Guardian Fiction Prize the following year.
Published in 1978, it won the Guardian Fiction Prize the following year.
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